Chelsea's EPIC 4-3 win over Manchester United was one of the matches of the season so far, and the late drama at Stamford Bridge ensured that Premier League history was made.
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Man Utd were leading with 99 minutes and 17 seconds on the clock, the latest a side has EVER led in a Premier League match they’ve gone on to lose.
Cole Palmer's winning goal, timed at 100 minutes and 39 seconds, was also the latest winning goal on record (since 2006/07) in a Premier League match.
The Blues became the first team in Premier League history to both score 2+ goals and concede 2+ goals in six consecutive matches in all competitions since Chelsea themselves back in November/December 1989.
Scoring two penalties in the match, Palmer has now converted all eight of his spot-kicks for Chelsea this season.
In Premier League history, only Yaya Toure (11/11) and Dimitar Berbatov (9/9) have taken more penalties while converting 100 per cent of them than the Blues star.
Registering his first career hat-trick, Palmer became the 200th different player to score a Premier League hat-trick and the third-youngest player to score three or more goals in a match against Man Utd in the competition, after Romelu Lukaku (20y 6d in May 2013) and David Bentley (21y 158d in February 2006).
Cole Palmer with his first senior hat-trick ball ⚽️#CHEMUN pic.twitter.com/MztlKPgOwV
— Premier League (@premierleague) April 4, 2024
Having also scored in the reverse fixture against Man Utd in December, Palmer became the first Chelsea player to score home and away against Man Utd in the same Premier League campaign since Juan Mata (2012/13) and the first English player to do so for the Blues since Frank Lampard (2010/11).
A boyhood Man United fan scoring a hat-trick and a 101st-minute winner 🤩
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) April 4, 2024
WHAT. A. GAME. pic.twitter.com/RYyZsptE69
There were 88 shots in the two matches between Chelsea and Man Utd this season, the most in a Premier League fixture since Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers in 2014/15.
While Alejandro Garnacho's double was overshadowed by Palmer's late heroics, the Man Utd winger became the first teenager to score two or more goals in three Premier League matches in a single season since Michael Owen in 1998/99.
